S1E3 For Women: Enjoying Christmas with Mrs. Cratchit

This past week, we finished the fall semester of Trinity College with our annual dramatic reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and our Cratchit Family Christmas Feast. Reading this lovely story again, I was struck by how Dickens describes Mrs. Cratchit’s emotional state during the Cratchit family Christmas dinner. She is anxious over the pudding, too nervous to have anyone join her in the kitchen, and she’s been fretting about the flour—all because of her desire to create a wonderful memory for her family. We can all relate to Mrs. Cratchit’s motherly love, but also to her anxieties and doubts. Rather than doubt or dread, there is a better way that mothers can approach the Christmas holidays, and we find it in the seemingly most un-holiday-like book of Ecclesiastes.  Read the full article: https://trinitycollegelou.com/tell-the-coming-generation/for-women-enjoying-christmas-with-mrs-cratchit Or subscribe to TELL via Substack: https://stevewhitacre.substack.com/p/for-women-enjoying-christmas-with Have a question about this episode? Send us an email at trinitycollegelou@gmail.com Follow us! Website: https://trinitycollegelou.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinityCollegeLou Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TrinityCollegeLou Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrinityCollegeL #trinitycollegelou #tellthecominggeneration